7th and 8th Grade Language Arts and History block class...
Background - students learned many aspects of the pre-Civil War era - sectionalism, slavery, currency, state/individual rights, constitutional amendment, primary documents, etc.
Student work - students read and studied many documents about Lincoln's death. Some included the testimonies given, prosecutor's and defense's arguments, as well as background information on the defendants. Students then created a Pattern Organizer about the assassination.
It starts with "Lincoln's Assassination" in the middle. To the left, students wrote the where, when, and time of death. Under causes, students wrote the connections they made to why someone would want to assassinate Lincoln. Some of the good answers were "Sectionalism, Lee's Surrender, Trial of Davis." Directly under "Lincoln's Assassination" they listed all the people involved. To the far right, under "Effects" students listed what the death would lead to. This was used to tie into the next unit on Reconstruction.
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This lesson plan seems really interesting. I hope all of it went well. I would have never thought about doing an activity like this, but I can see how it makes them think about it more, and pattern it out. I would like to use this with my own students.
ReplyDeleteI liked this idea and want to use it next year in my teaching. Thanks for sharing and the details of your lesson.
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